Israeli Elections 2013- Preliminary Results

The three Israeli television channels published their preliminary results of the elections at 22:00 tonight (Jan 22nd, 45 minutes ago). The results are surprising. However, I must stress that these are in no way the final results. The preliminary polls are quite often off and the final results may be different from what the TV stations have published. The votes will be counted by hand throughout the night and we should have the *almost* final results some time tomorrow. The final results will be in on Thursday (Jan 24th).

Likud+ Yisrael Beiteinu (Netanyahu + Lieberman)- According to all three channels received 31 seats.

Yesh Atid (Yair Lapid)- the big surprise of the elections. Channel 10 gives them 18 seats (polls predicted no more than 12) and channel 1 and 2 give them 19.

Labor (Yachimovitch)- According to all three channels received 17 seats.

Jewish Home (Bennet)- According to all three channels received 12 seats.